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Chapter 517
Wei Zhongliang is dead.
Like Aqina, he died of the emperor's suspicion.
The difference is that Aqina has a clear conscience, and Wei Zhongliang deserves to die.
But regardless of loyalty and treachery, once the emperor suspects, the end is the same, the difference is how to die.
Just like a melon, when you doubt whether it is a raw melon, it is no longer ripe.
Because it is not important whether it is a raw melon, what is important is that you are afraid that it is a raw melon.
The same is true for the emperor. When the emperor doubts you, it doesn't matter whether you are loyal or traitor. The important thing is that the emperor is afraid of you.
There is no way, the profession of emperor has been a high-risk profession since ancient times. Almost half of them were assassinated with conclusive evidence, and a small half died of unknown reasons. Few of them started well and ended well. Biqu library
There is a total of one stone of poison in the world, and the imperial palace monopolizes eight buckets.
What is a lonely family, this is called a lonely family, trust, you need to gamble with your life.
Since ancient times, emperors have been so ruthless. It is not new to kill brothers, fathers, sons and wives, let alone bureaucrats.
Wei Zhongliang died, the emperor was furious, and ordered Feiyuwei to solve the case quickly with two imperial decrees.
Feiyuwei immediately detained all the monks of Guangyuan Temple for investigation.
After some searching, the problem was found.
Guangyuan Temple took in two monks from the Liao region a few months ago, and found items with the characters of the Di nationality and an empty bottle containing poison that was too late to be destroyed from their belongings.
This is called stealing and getting.
After some interrogation, the two monks not only confessed their crimes, but also confessed their identities—the eight secret works of the shadows of Di Kingdom, and the main task of going south is to secretly assassinate important figures in Dali.
So in less than half a day, Feiyuwei closed the case.
The testimonies of witnesses and material evidence are all there, and the iron case is like a mountain.
Knowing the result of solving the case, the emperor immediately ordered the execution department to execute Di Luxi Zuo Lingchi, all the monks of Guangyuan Temple were sent to guard the border, and ordered the Hanlin Academy to write Wei Zhongliang's biography and bury him generously.
In general, Chongzheng's action to get rid of Wei Zhongliang was extremely successful.
As soon as Liu Changan's memorial appeared, he quickly handed Liu Changan over to Wei Zhongliang to show his comfort and trust. After temporarily stabilizing Wei Zhongliang, he resolutely poisoned Wei Zhongliang through the Flying Fish Secret Guard.
But Chongzheng ignored
One thing is omitted, the Eunuch Party is the only political force capable of suppressing the Donglin Party, and the survival of the Eunuch Party depends entirely on Wei Zhongliang.
When Wei Zhongliang died, the eunuch party lost its backbone.
The only person with some prestige was Cui Chengxiu, Minister of the Ministry of War. However, before Cui Chengxiu could stabilize the morale of the army, the Donglin party members beat him to death in the early morning of the second day.
That's right, a group of people who couldn't lift their shoulders and lift their hands as civil servants beat a second-rank official to death when they went to court.
His behavior is like a fight in the rivers and lakes.
Chongzheng was shocked when he heard the news, and quickly issued an order to arrest several officials who participated in the gang fight.
However, he still didn't realize the seriousness of the matter, and he didn't use it to suppress Donglin's support eunuch party or other factions. Instead, he raised the board high and lowered it gently amidst the Donglin Party's cries, only to punish him. Three months' salary for the arrested officials.
After the officials arrested in Donglin were released, not only were they not ashamed, but they also proudly and proudly regarded themselves as "killing heroes".
Since then, the balance of the Great Li Dynasty Hall has been completely out of balance, and a vigorous liquidation operation against the Eunuch Party has become inevitable.
On August 18th of the lunar calendar, Yan Wenzhong, the left servant of the household department, counted 30 crimes against Wei Zhongliang and his eunuch party, please punish the eunuch party.
On the nineteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, twenty-three officials jointly named by the Ministry of Officials requested a thorough investigation of Wei Zhongliang.
On the 20th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, seventy-six officials from the ruling and opposition parties once again jointly requested a thorough investigation of Wei Zhongliang, Cui Chengxiu, Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun and other five tigers and five tigers.
For several days after that, all kinds of black materials from the eunuch party flew onto Chongzheng's desk like snowflakes, and the voices of pleading to kill the eunuch party became higher and higher, so that the early court could not discuss the matter at all.
Because no matter what is played, a few words can always be related to the downcasting, and then there will be overwhelming verbal criticism.
Seeing that the wind was not right, the weak Southern Party, Xuan Party, Qi Party, and Northern Party joined the crusade one after another to avoid being implicated.
As for the eunuchs, the doomsday is approaching. Some want to protect themselves and turn against the water to lead the way, some hold boxes and boxes of gold and silver and try to bribe Donglin bosses, and some simply resign and run away.
The only bit of resistance was drowned in the tide of saliva.
With the help of the rebellious eunuchs, Donglin has more firepower,
One pile after another, it can be said that the evidence is conclusive, and the evidence is as solid as a mountain.
Even if Di Renjie was alive, he couldn't say anything else.
When the wall falls, everyone pushes it, and when the drum breaks, everyone beats it.
Chongzheng sensed something was wrong, but seeing the menacing situation of the government and the public, and also out of fear of the remnants of the eunuchs, he ordered the three justices to inquire about the eunuchs. Biqu library
Pay attention to wording, ask questions.
However, regardless of whether it is the eunuch or Donglin, who can stand the question?
The only difference is who asks and who answers.
But two days.
Xu Xianchun and Tian Ergeng, two of the five tigers of the eunuch party, committed suicide in fear of crime.
The Donglin Party pursued and killed them from the opened breakthrough, continued to climb and bite, and finally caged the entire Eunuch Party.
After more than half a month, all eunuchs of the eunuch party in Beijing, whether civil or military, were all imprisoned, and dozens of imperial decrees went to the whole country to arrest the remaining party members.
All vacancies will be filled by Ye Donglin.
It is called "the public is full of prosperity".
Chongzheng practiced goodness like a stream, brought order out of chaos, and was regarded as the "Sage King of Zhongxing" by the government and the public, and was highly praised.
Then, in mid-September, an important event that determined Dali's fate came.
More than 30 officials, jointly signed by the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, petitioned for the abolition of the factory supervisors, and instead sent people from the Ministry of Household Affairs to collect Jiangnan commercial taxes, and counted 20 crimes against the factory supervisors.
Mantang Donglin promised that the Ministry of Households would send people to collect commercial taxes, which would increase the tax by five million taels a year, get rid of the malpractice of factory supervisors wantonly collecting money and enriching their own pockets, and quell the anger of the people in the south of the Yangtze River.
Chongzheng was immersed in the praise of "Zhongxing Shengjun" and didn't know why, so he continued to "follow goodness like a stream", and an imperial decree went to Jiangnan to abolish all the factory supervisors and grain supervision teams that Wei Zhongliang collected money and food, totaling more than 5,000 people.
In the future, let Donglin collect "his own" money and food.
On the day when the imperial decree arrived in the southern capital, the powerful landlords and wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River celebrated with each other. After shouting long live to the mountains in the north, they led the family guards and burned, killed and looted the silver warehouses, granaries, and fleets of the factory supervisor and grain supervision team. revenge.
More than 5,000 factory supervisors and food supervision teams were killed and injured, and the rest fled into the mountains and disappeared.
That is, on that day, the Luck Golden Dragon entrenched above the palace disappeared in vain and became lifeless, and only the shape of the dragon could be vaguely discerned.
Shocked by this scene, the King of Fortune gasped and exclaimed: "Da Li is over!"